A very simple, everyday occurrence when you live on a dirt road, and your new electric car doesn't have a rear wiper (go figure!) is this kind of pattern of dirt, grit and pollen on the rear windshield as it drops and settles from the overhang, depending on how much moisture there is around.
Different days, different conditions, different patterns - some days are worse than others (I wonder if some of it is ash from wildfires?)
This pretty little annual was showing off on one of my floating garden stumps. It's one of the more common false foxgloves, Agalinis purpurea and enjoys wet, boggy environments
This little beauty is partially parasitic, using the roots of other plants to gain nutrients.
Whilst examining aquatic plant air spaces and distinguishing tiny yellow flowering bladderworts from each other, I detected a movement in my plant tray. It came from this little brown speck ...
which turned into this as it moved along - the head stretches forward and uses the same looping motion as an inchworm to pull itself forward, attaching and detaching front and back suckers alternately to move forward.
